[1] But if the same armie might haue béene readie to haue transported ouer in time, before the losse of Calis, and whilest the weather was most calme and swéet, as was possible for that time of the yeare, the towne might haue béene preserued; and the other pée|ces which through want of timelie succours came in|to the enimies possession. And thus by negligence of the councell at home, conspiracie of traitors else|where, force and false practise of enimies, holpen by the rage of most terrible tempests of contrarie winds and weather, this famous fort of Calis was brought againe and left in the hands and possession of the French. ¶ Now were he worthie of a kingdome, Abr. Fl. ex opere historico Schardij collectio that could sensiblie and significantlie set foorth the insolent triumphs and immoderate reioising of the French for the recouerie of Calis so long possessed by the English, and now in forren tenure. In des|cribing whereof a man had néed of manie heads fraught with extraordinarie inuention, and of many hands readilie to deliuer in writing his rare con|ceipts in this case. For as they are a people depen|ding wholie vpon extremities in their actions: so in this they vsed no measure, insomuch that euen the learneder sort among them, namelie Turnebus, Au|ratus, [page 1137] Bellaius, and others did both pen and publish pamphlets in Latine verse, replenished with scoffs and vnreuerend termes against the English, cal|ling them Perfidos, and in flowting sort Diuisos orbe Bri|tannos; but aduancing to the skies their Henrie, their Guise, and the rest of the rowt that were actors in this conquest. A sight of which verses in some part I may not omit (for it requireth a booke to transcribe all) least I might be thought to impose vpon them a false charge. This therefore in the forme of a dialog betweene a post and the people writeth Auratus the French kings publike reader in the Gréeke toong:
N. Clamate Galli nunc ter io io.V. Quae laeta Gallis instat ouatio?N. E [...] tomo terti [...] historiarum Schardij de capto Caleto pag. 1973 &c.Capti Caletes. V. Multa paucisDigna nouo memoras triumpho.N. Vicêre Galli, sed duce Guisio.V. Io triumphe, nunc ter io io.N. Vicêre victores Britannos.V. Nunc ter io, ter io triumphe.N. Annos discentos serua BritanniaeVrbs liberata est. V. Nunc ter io io,N. Migrate iam prisci coloni.V. Nunc [...]er io, ter io triumphe, &c.